A Year of Living Dangerously

“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.” Isaiah 43:25  NIV Blots out – I think I need to confess.  I’ve been branded a heretic because of my views about the royal position of the woman (Guardian Angel) and my argument that Yeshua is the…

A Remedy Comes Before The Sickness

And not only this, but we also celebrate in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.  Romans 5:11  NASB Reconciliation – Reconciliation: noun: 1 the restoration of friendly relations: his reconciliation with your uncle | the colonel was seeking a reconciliation with his wife. 2 the action of making one view or belief compatible with another: he aims to bring about a reconciliation…

Fire Escape

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Matthew 28:19 NASB Go – An article by Greg Laurie[1] uses the image of your neighbor’s house on fire to spur you toward evangelism. Laurie asks, “Wouldn’t you do something to…

Inheriting the Whirlwind

seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.  For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature,…

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But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.  Galatians 4:4-5  NASB Redeem – “It is not enough to have met a word in…

The End of the End

for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world.  But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.  Hebrews 9:26  ESV The end of the ages – If you read this verse by…

Why?

but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles  1 Corinthians 1:23  ESV Stumbling block/ folly – Why is the Messiah crucified a stumbling block to Jews?  Why is the Messiah crucified folly to Gentiles?  Why does Paul choose two different words for two different groups of people?  If the…

When?

“ . . . for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”  Jeremiah 31:34  NASB I will forgive – When does God forgive?  You might answer, “At the moment you repent?”  That seems correct until we ask, “Did God forgive prior to the death of Yeshua?”  Maybe what you…

Hitting the Nail on the Head

having cancelled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.  Colossians 2:14  NASB Nailed it – In the June 18,2011 edition of Today’s Word, we examined this verse and discovered that what…

Problem Pronouns

For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.  Colossians 1:13-14  NASB He/his – In recent dialogue these verses were used to prove that Yeshua’s death on the cross was for the atonement of our sins. …